Is there a standard for adding wifi cards or usb sticks to church computers? Is there a reason we don't have computers with built-in wifi? We have had several challenges with our local ISP and there have been days when the entire connection is down. MLS can't transmit. If we had wifi on the clerks computers, we could borrow a hotspot and still transmit. Any suggestions?

You can certainly connect your clerk's computer to the meetinghouse firewall using a wireless adapter, but you cannot connect it to a hotspot or a neighbor's wireless, because all MLS transmissions must go through the VPN provided by the meetinghouse firewall.

Well, they do. The new standard computer is the Lenovo M73 Tiny, which has a built-in wireless adapter. That is the computer the Church sent to all the FMs to replace the last remaining Windows XP computers.

As for wireless adapters, we started using Linksys WRT54G adapters years ago. When those began to fail, I switched to Netgear N600 adapters. About a month after I installed those, my FM decided it was time to wire all the clerk's offices in the stake center.

drepouille wrote:Well, they do. The new standard computer is the Lenovo M73 Tiny, which has a built-in wireless adapter. That is the computer the Church sent to all the FMs to replace the last remaining Windows XP computers.

As for wireless adapters, we started using Linksys WRT54G adapters years ago. When those began to fail, I switched to Netgear N600 adapters. About a month after I installed those, my FM decided it was time to wire all the clerk's offices in the stake center.

It's worth pointing out that's for connecting to the Meetinghouse Internet - though the provided firewall. Not for bypassing it.

I'm quite certain that MANY clerk computers connect through wireless because their FMG did not run ethernet anywhere other than the WAP's.... Nobody has ever said, purchase a certain brand of wireless adapter. By this point, they are all the same and are quite cheap.

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